October, 2012

Today, we announced that the Team Foundation Service has released. Read more about it on the service web site here: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/home/news/ . I wanted to provide a bit of my own commentary (beyond what I put on the web site...

In my Update 1 preview post 6 weeks ago, I described a new capability enabling test case management and manual testing from within a browser, rather than having to install Test Professional on the target machine. Unfortunately, we had to make the...

Yesterday, we deployed our sprint 38 work to the service. You can read the release notes on the service here: http://tfspreview.com/en-us/home/news/2012/oct-29/
Other than some bug fixes, this sprint was primarily about our build automation features...

***UPDATE Nov-28 2012*** Update 1 has now released and the final CTP is no longer available. See this post for more info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/11/26/visual-studio-2012-update-1-is-available.aspx
Today we released the final CTP...

As you may know, we've had a web UI for TFS for quite some time. In our TFS 2012 release, we did a pretty major overhaul of our web UI to modernize it - both in look and feel and in architecture. We moved to REST/Json, and a lot more in-browser Javascript...

Today we announced that MSDN subscribers around the world are eligible for a 12-month Pluralsight training subscription. We originally made this limited-time benefit available to our US subscribers over the summer. Due to the great response and feedback...

Yesterday, two significant things happened (ok, maybe more than that, but two I'm going to talk about :)).
Like clock work, we deployed our end-of-sprint update to the Team Foundation Service . You can read more about it in the update news .
We...

It’s been a long time since my last farm post. As I’m just wrapping up a major project, I figure now is a good time to provide an update. When we first bought the farm, we thought our primary activity was going to be goats. After doing...

I haven’t been blogging about it regularly (because there’s a separate Codeplex blog ) but Codeplex continues to march forward. We’ve done some good work on pull request workflow, work on streamlining and bringing forward the code focused experience...